Continuing with my Elance series, today I want to focus on Elance membership fees and explain exactly what connects are.
Elance Membership Fees
Membership fees with Elance vary depending on the subscription you choose.
- Free Subscription = 3 connects per month, you cannot purchase more connects
- Individual subscription = $9.95 per month and 20 connects. You can purchase more connects
- Small Business subscription = $19.95 per month with 40 connects. You can add 5 people to this membership and you can purchase additional connects.
- Large Business subscriptiion = $39.95 per month with 60 connects. You can add unlimited people to this membership and purchase additional connects.
My Elance subscription is the Individual subscription so I pay $9.95 each month and I receive 20 connects.
What Are Connects?
This is something that confuses quite a lot of people. It would be easy to just say that connects are bids but it’s not that simple. Whilst connects are what you use to bid, each connect does not equate to one bid. The number of connects you need to bid on a project will depend on the project budget. If a project is under $500 you will use up one connect to bid on this project. $500 – $1,000 uses 2 connects, and so forth. This goes up to 4 connects to bid on a project. There are also what are known as featured projects and to bid on these projects you will use double the amount of connects. If the project is for $500 you will need 2 connects to bid on it if it is a featured project.
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